[esip-semantictech] Questions regarding the Semantic_Web_Ontology_Portal_Evaluation_Approach

[Tom Narock]

Thanks for the edits, Lewis.

> Is this an accurate reflection of what is intended?

I would say “yes”.

> Who ate the main stakeholders/audience for this document?

In my opinion, the primary audience is the ESIP community with the broader Earth science community and associated groups (e.g. NSF EarthCube, and AGU) as a secondary audience. If others feel differently, please speak up. 

> Are we COMPARING technologies, or identifying the Semantic Technologies
> community requirements and then evaluating whether these requirements are
> met by various technology/software stacks?

I’d say the latter. I think we need to identify/quantify the requirements of the community and then see if those requirements are met by existing technology/software. Although, if two technologies address the same requirement then a comparison may be needed. But, my vote is that we need to first make sure we have the requirements properly captured. I think the ontology portal is a good example of this. I’m not sure we have a good grasp on how folks find, use, map, and evaluate ontologies in this community to know yet which features need/must be available in a portal.

Happy to hear alternative viewpoints if anyone disagrees.

Tom